Cyprus

UK House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle praised the long history of friendship and common values between Cyprus and Britain on Tuesday after a meeting with Cypriot counterpart Annita ...

Energy Minister Natasa Pilides travelled to Egypt earlier this week to attend the Egypt Petroleum Show (EGYPS) in Cairo, an oil, gas and energy conference in which Cyprus is participating ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will head to Brussels on Thursday and Friday to take part in a European Union – African Union summit. Among other issues, the summit will focus on matters ...

Cyprus is ready to charter flights to repatriate Cypriot citizens from Ukraine if needed, Transport Minister Yiannis Karousos said on Tuesday after the foreign ministry had earlier advised them to ...

The police have called for an end to the “violent incidents” following at least three reported attacks by Greek Cypriots on foreign nationals working as food delivery drivers. Police spokesman ...

Determined not to be held back, a businessman in Paphos talks to PAUL LAMBIS about his life in and outside the army At the age of 59, Jeff Greenwood is content ...

Ongoing investigations into the suspected import of damaged luxury cars to Cyprus have revealed there might have been more than 10 cars sold without the sellers declaring they had been damaged ...

The ban on the entry of unvaccinated people to restaurants, cafés, bars and nightclubs will be lifted as of next week while dancing will also be allowed, cabinet decided ...

Paphos police on Tuesday said they have arrested a 26-year-old man after he tried to depart the island using someone else’s travel documents. The man arrived at Paphos international ...

UN peacekeepers and Cyprus police have mounted a search for the twin of the three-year-old girl found wandering alone in the buffer zone near Athienou in the early hours on ...

A 21-year-old medical student pleaded guilty to two charges in the alleged terrorism plot in which Israelis were to be assassinated in Cyprus, in a move suggesting he will be ...

Police are seeking information that could help locate 16-year-old Abdirahman Abdihamid Mohamed from Somalia, who has been missing from his residence in Nicosia since December 28, 2021. The 16-year-old is described as ...

A team of students will attempt to break the world record by sending a micro-satellite into space to capture images and videos from an altitude of 147,648 feet. This will take ...

Two cars in the parking lot of an apartment block in Limassol were set ablaze in the early hours of Tuesday, police saying it was arson. According to the police, ...

In today’s episode, Cyprus’ legal system was tested and failed in its handling of the 2019 Ayia Napa gang rape case, the chairwoman of the House human rights committee said ...

Paphos police stopped a 24-year-old motorcyclist in Chlorakas on Monday night. The man appeared to be under the influence of drugs and was riding without a helmet, licence plate or ...

Relatives of female army sergeants announced on Monday they are planning a demonstration to protest gender-based discrimination in the National Guard, a claim backed up by a recent report by ...

Cyprus medical association (CMA) on Monday slammed the health insurance service organisation (HIO) for “shoddy planning”, reiterating they had warned about the inadequacy of the Gesy budget prior to its ...

Opposition parties on Monday stayed unsatisfied with tweaks to a government bill regulating the access to borrowers’ data by companies buying loan portfolios and debt administrators. Although the bill will ...

Cyprus’ legal system was tested and failed in its handling of the 2019 Ayia Napa gang rape case concerning a British woman, the chairwoman of the House human rights committee said ...

Three deaths from coronavirus and 2,930 new cases were reported on Monday out of 134,415 PCR and rapid tests, a positivity rate of 2.18 per cent. The deaths concerned an 85-year-old woman who ...

The government and the opposition traded barbs on Monday over whose fault it is that Cyprus has come under the European Commission’s scrutiny over its VAT policy on primary ...

Cyprus’ National Guard and the French armed forces successfully completed the air defence exercise “Talos 2022” on Monday. The exercise was part of the bilateral defence cooperation programme, between Cyprus and ...

The fire department in 2021 responded to a total of 12,333 calls for assistance, 7,383 of which concerned fires, 2,909 taking place in urban areas and 4,474 in the countryside. According to the annual report ...